Management and Leadership
In today business, there is the need of having people to lead and manage due to the them
growing rapidly. For that, reason organizations are hiring leaders and managers to help
them run their businesses. Many would think that management and leadership are
synonymous to each other but they are not. The two are related, but their functions are
different. Below I will differentiate their roles and responsibilities in maintaining a healthy
environment in an organization. In addition, I will give recommendations to create and
maintain a healthy organizational culture.
Management and leadership are both important in an organization, but they seek two
different things. Managers focus on managing the work that needs to be done by putting
their employees to help them accomplish the objectives while leaders focus on leading
people to the companies vision. Management also focuses on the short-term events, they
ensure that the resources are used and improvement is made within time frames of days,
weeks and months. Leaders, in the other hand deals with uncertainly, they focused on long
term events such as policies and procedures. Managers empowers (not only delegate) staff
and develops them for advancement. Managers has to seek feedback and listen, they have
too build visions and missions with their staff. Managers has to respond promptly to staff
and manager has to manage creatively and to demonstrate good examples to the staff
It is important to manage the organization culture and to know the weaknesses. The goal of